Information Technology is moving forward, often taking what seems like quantum leaps. Web 2.0, Mobile Apps are just some of the major trends affecting all of us, affecting our daily lives. Staying abreast, understanding and mastering this technology is a daunting challenge.

My goal, as a writer, is to provide you with detailed tutorials mostly on developing mobile apps for iOS that you can download at www.iosdev101.com under downloads. Walking you through the process of setting up a project, coding, debugging and running the app.

If there any code, sample app, or tutorial you would like to see for iOS just drop me an e-mail.

Create custom UIControls using this tutorial for iOS apps using custom graphics, the UIKit and the Foundation classes. It is easy and requires very little code to create fully animated custom controls for iOS apps.

A critical component of any iOS application with a database is implementing a backup strategy. This how-to article provides many options for backing up a SQLite database, which is the standard database choice for iOS...

Create beautiful custom control radio buttons and checkboxes for your iOS (iPhone, iPad) applications. Follow this simple tutorial to create radio buttons and checkboxes that fit the style of your app and requires very...

Learn to create PDF documents using the APIs in the iOS UIKit. Use the UIGraphicsBeginPDFContextToFile and the UIGraphicsBeginPDFContextToData to quickly create and save PDF files with this sample iOS iPhone app.

Step forwards and backwards though data in SQLite database. Learn how to browse data in a SQLite database using this iPhone app which uses a UITextField and an UITextView to capture and display data to and from the...

This sample code and example iPhone app demonstrates a solution to remove the blinking cursor from an UITextField in an iOS app. This is handy as the app demonstrates to use with an UIDatePicker to allow a user to...

Learn how to store binary data like image in a SQLite database from an iPhone iOS app. You will also learn how to convert the uiimage to binary data for storage and retrieval in an UIImageView using an UIPickerView as a...

Learn how easy it is to develop Android App with SQLite using Adobe Flash Builder and Flex. Adobe's Flash APIs have native support for SQLite making developing Android apps easy. Using Adobe Air and the ADT in Flash...

Sitting postures to avoid back pain while sitting at a computer workstation or desk starts with an office ergonomic chair. Choosing the right office chair to lower pain is key to good posture for computer use. Lower...

How to make an iOS app using Flash. Learn to make Flash Builder apps for Flash iOS development. With Flash app development, you can create iOS apps for App Store. Adobe Air will convert to native iOS code for great...

run WMI queries and process or another DOS or Windows process from SQL Server using the SQL xp_cmdshell function. This tutorial walks you through how to setup xp_cmdshell on the server and execute differenttype sof...

Being an iPhone app creator is not only open to programmers, but also to marketers, web designers and other professionals in the creative arts. This guide explores the different options and provides the tools to help...

This tutorial provides all the steps to manually add Core Data to an existing application or to an iOS application, like a Single View Application, without using a pre-existing Core Data template. This tutorial assume...

Develop 2d and 3d graphics using the GLkit and the open GL ES frameworks. This tutorial provides a great introduction on GLKBaseEffect, GLKSkyBoxEffect, GLKTextureLoader and how to setup a basic animation in iOS.

iOS Property List files, or plist files, are a great way to store data and to use them to store config setting specific to your app or even to use them instead of global variables. This tutorial teaches you how to...

iOS SQLite Database for iPhone and iPad is a tutorial demonstrating how to Insert, Update, Delete, Select (CRUD) data from a UIViewController into a SQLite database in an iPhone or iPad application. Display data from...

iOS, what is the best ways the make data globally available? One possible solution is to use a Singleton as this tutorial demonstrates. Using a Singleton to pass data between multiple view controllers and other objects...

The IOS 5 UIAlertView is a versatile popover that offers several styles. Logins, Prompts, Text Messages. This tutorial offers several examples on how to implement the UIAlertView for iPad and iPhone or iPod Touch.

This is a tutorial on how to implement an incrementing or decrementing counting as forward or back buttons to retrieve values from an Array using Objective-C and display the values in a label on a View Controller in an...

This is a tutorial to demonstrate how to dismiss the contextual keyboard that displays when a user enters a UITextField. This tutorial demonstrates how to make the keyboard dismiss when a field loses focus, or when a...

This Storyboard Connections tutorial provides insight on how to create connection in a Storyboard, set delegates, add code to interact with the different objects. It is designed for new programmers or at least...

SQLite is a great technology for data storage and persistence for mobile applications and web applications. Although not a database server, it offers nevertheless the possibility to group several databases together, for...

Objective-C if examples. If expressions in Objective-C work the same as in C or any other language. This tutorial is a good mix between theory and complete code examples. It also show how to create objects and methods...

Objective-C instance variables and constant. In addition to the types, C variables and constants, Objective-C also adds instance variables. This tutorial offers a comprehensive review of how to use instance variables...

Variables, constants and their types are some of the main building blocks in programming. This tutorial covers variables in C in regards to Objective-C. This is a second installment in a complete course on C and...

This tutorial demonstrates how to make a silent connection using VBA (or Visual Basic), either from an Excel worksheet or VB client. The tutorial uses the BAPI Control and SAP Logon Control, both of which, are included...

The tutorial demonstrates how to create an ios app for iPhones or iPad using the PhoneGap platform and a HTML editor like Amaya (any other can be used as well). What is amazing is that entire app was created without...

Creating a servlet is very simple, once you know the mechanics. Just like a Java Servlet is just a bunch of methods to handle HTTPRequests and HTTPResponses so is the Generic Handler class in Microsoft (dot) Net...

Transact-SQL boast many specialized stored procedures, enabling the developer or administrator to interface with every part of the Microsoft platform. This tutorial presents some example on how -to use vbscript to...